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United States Patent | 6,120,072 |
Benedict | September 19, 2000 |
A doorstop for use with swingable doors to prevent unauthorized entry into an area which includes a brace member pivotally connected to a base. The brace has an end for engaging the floor when the doorstop is in use. An angular orientation of the brace relative to the base is controlled by a lock bar having a T-shaped head connected by a shank to an enlarged inner end which is seated in non-rotational relationship to the base after being inserted in a first orientation through aligned slots in the base and brace member and then rotated to seat within the base.
Inventors: | Benedict; Charles E. (Tallahassee, FL) |
Assignee: | Tesseract Enterprises, Inc. (Tallahassee, FL) |
Appl. No.: | 340122 |
Filed: | June 28, 1999 |
Current U.S. Class: | 292/338; 292/339 |
Intern'l Class: | E05C 017/44 |
Field of Search: | 292/262,288,297,338,339,342 |
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Foreign Patent Documents | |||
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